Thursday 12 October 2023

Waxcap #16 - Pale Waxcap

In one of its usual spots in the South Field was a single Pale Waxcap. I am pretty convinced this is a separate species to the Meadow Waxcap. Boertmann says that because the only difference is colour it is treated as the same species but that is not the only difference in my opinion - the cap shape, and the stipe are also different. He does go on to say that he never finds intermediates so I am going with it being Cuphophyllus berkeleyi rather than C. pratensis.

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